Running from Rescue

In 1981, a Minnesota radio station reported a story about a stolen car in California. Police were staging an intense search for the vehicle and the driver, even to the point of placing announcements on local radio stations to contact the thief. On the front seat of the stolen car sat a box of crackers that, unknown to the thief, were laced with poison. The car owner had intended to use the crackers as rat poison. Now the police and the owner of the car were more interested in apprehending the thief to SAVE HIS LIFE 
than to recover the car.

Many view God as a policeman trying to catch someone doing wrong, when in reality, God wants to rescue us from our deadly sins (Romans 6:23). He is “not willing
that ANY should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).  He
“desires ALL men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth"(1Timothy 2:4).

Don’t misunderstand - God detests sin (Habakkuk 1:13), AND He will punish  unforgiven sin (Revelation 21:8).  However, God wants to SAVE us from sin.
In fact, He has gone to great lengths to provide forgiveness for our sins. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 

For God did NOT send His Son into the world to CONDEMN the world, but that the world through Him might be SAVED" (John 3:16-17).

God will forgive THOSE who: place their trust in Him (Hebrews 11:6), repent of sin
(2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess Christ (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized (immersed) in the name of Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).  God will CONTINUE to forgive THOSE who: CONTINUE to strive to walk in the light of His Word in faithful obedience (1 John 1:7).

Many are running FROM God, seeking to escape His punishment.  What they are actually doing is ELUDING HIS RESCUE!  We NEED to run TO God - turning from our sin and turning to Him through our trusting obedience. 

Are you running from His RESCUE??  Why not turn to Him today?  He wants to rescue YOU!

David A. Sargent, Minister 

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

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